Writing therapy saved me this Christmas. My therapist recommended that I take note of all of the things causing mental duress. Doing so was revolutionary. Most of the anxiety and rumination simply disappeared and I was left with a list of stimulus overloads that I could now see clearly and thus manage.

In this episode I reflect on the Christmas season, discuss the process of writing therapy, as well as discuss my creative plans for 2022.

I wish you well for the year to come!

It’s that time of year again, when festive joy is replaced by obligation and overwhelm.

In this episode, I share how December is something for me (and many of you) to endure. Survival is put at a premium and strategies to maintain some semblance of normality are introduced.

I also have a meta discussion as to the point of this podcast, coming to the conclusion that I use it as another form of writing therapy - offering up a model for you to potentially replicate for your own healing (it never has to be shared of course).

Is something missing from your life? Some undefined hole that simply can’t be filled? Perhaps it a bug of our society.

A structural fault caused by the interplay between goals, technology, geography, values and opulence.

If left unchallenged, these influences can produce a feeling of a lacking something of meaning, connection, identity and purpose.

I operate under the paradox of striving for stability whilst balancing the chaos that comes my way.

Recent global events have collided with a collection of challenging personal tragedies that has left me feeling rocked.

For the last 75 days I exercised 90 minutes or more and cut all sugar, fast food and alcohol. The results were not impressive.

It’s all to easy to fall into the trap of mass marketed diets. ‘Do this and you will look like me.’

They don’t work - at least not as quickly or exclusively as advertised.

In this episode I breakdown my journey through 75 HARD. I share my results and discuss how, whilst ‘good’, they are not as impressive as you would initially believe.

What happens when a society has no memory? When every issue feels just as important to every other issue? When we are so over saturated with conflict and controversy that we lose the ability to discern real problems from surface level irritations?

In this episode of The Reality Check Podcast I break down how technology, the news cycle, and social media is warping the social fabric of our society and creating a never ending roller coaster of conflict - all for profit.

Unless we speak our truth, our narrative will be created for us. People will believe what they see online, pushed by the curators of their individual echo chambers.

Thus other’s perception of you, and the people belonging to your groups, will not be correct. Quotes will be mined, small disagreements emphasised and conflicts stoked.

All for profit.

Neglect is the absence of love, support and guidance. It’s impact is multifaceted, spanning every aspect of a sufferers life.

I have started blogging on the topic in the hopes to reduce the stigma, explain the impact, and to connect with fellow suffers.

Two of my recent posts received a lot of comments and engagement, so I decided to feature and expand upon them here.